Brooks: Jindal’s Speech Was Insane

Aaugh, David Brooks, cruel temptor! He writes these laughable columns that say “maybe the President should take a cautious, incrementalist approach to address the SWEEPING TSUNAMI OF FINANCIAL RUIN that threatens to cripple America for a generation,” but then he talks such hilarious smack about Bobby Jindal. So for today, Brooks is an alright guy. He is giddy at the downfall of his own party. [NewsHour via Ben Smith]

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All that rocking back and forth while he talks, Brooks looks like a blind man playing a piano.

Serolf Divad

Bobby Jindall is my new hero. A man who can criticize the government for an ineffective response to Hurricane Katrina and in the same breath attack the government for wanting to spend money to monitor volcanic eruptions is so shamelessly partisan you just can’t help but love him. He’s like the evil Barack Obama from a parallel dimension… all he’s missing is the goatee.

WadISay

I expected him to jump up on the desk, beat his chest and cry out, “My epistomological modesty is humungous!!!”

WagTehGod

Does Brooks have Parkinson’s or something?

Bruno

For once he actually makes some sense. So that means he has a Boner for Palin?

I didn’t think he went that way.

OReillysVibrator

His real name is “Piyush” Jindal. Or, as I like to call him, Piyush “Hussein” Jindal.

snideinplainsight

The thing I appreciated least about Jindal’s little talk was his sly segue from ranting about government ethics and corruption (in Lousiana!) to discussing the stimulus package, all in one breath. Did anybody else notice that? Was it just me that found that offensive?

I still think he peaked in The Sixth Sense. Also.

shanemacgowan

Watched Fox last night for giggles. Even Britt Hume and Charles Krauthammer hated Piyush’s speech. Noone does a circular firing squad quite like the R’s.

Egregious

Hmmm, it seems when Brooks puts on his “man” glasses, he makes sense.

GooseInANoose

Volcano monitoring? BoJi knows that’s just more wasteful government spending. You cure diseases by exorcising evil spirits, you revive the economy with voodoo, and you prevent volcanic eruptions by throwing virgins into them. Everybody knows that. Why do you think the GOP is so supportive of abstinence education? Personally, I look forward to hearing more about BoJi’s innovative solutions to the pressing problems of our time.

totoro

Well, Well. Looks like Brooks was reading these comments yesterday. He’s done another 180. So now it seems that the idea that government can and should do nothing to deal with economic crisis is “nihilism”? I thought society and its problems were too complex for top down liberal central planning. And his only beef with the stimulus was that it was “poorly drafted”—like one of his leaden columns. Brooks is a fraud and, it turns out, stupid. His kind of name-dropping, clause-heavy verbal masturbation stopped passing for intelligence by the time most people declared a major.

GooseInANoose

If you do not ever forward anything else, please forward this to all your contacts… this is very scary to think of what lies ahead of us here in our own United States… better heed this and pray about it and share it.

Who is Bobby Jindal?

Probable U.S. presidential candidate, Piyush ‘Bobby’ Jindal was born in Baton Rouge, Lousiana, to Amar Jindal, an Indian REPUBLICAN from Punjab and Raj Jindal, a REPUBLICAN information technology director.

Jindal takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a REPUBLICAN. He is quick to point out that he attended Brown University and was elected to office after Hurricane Katrina. Jindal’s political handlers are attempting to make it appear that he is not a radical.

Jindal’s introduction to Republicanism came via George H.W. Bush, and this influence was temporary at best. In reality, the senior Bush returned to Texas soon after Jindal’s political awakening, and never again had any direct influence over his indoctrination.

Jim McCrery, a REPUBLICAN congressman, introduced his protege to Republicanism during the Gingrich Revolution of 1994. Jindal was enrolled in the Republican Party in Lousiana. Republicanism is the RADICAL teaching that is followed by wingnuts who are now waging cultural warfare against the western world. Since it is politically expedient to be a MODERATE when seeking major public office in the United States, Piyush ‘Bobby’ Jindal has presented himself as a reformer in an attempt to downplay his Republican background.

Piyush ‘Bobby’ Jindal will NOT support progressive policies nor will he show any reverence for our constitution. While others proudly voted for change, Jindal slouched and supported four more years of the policies of GEORGE W. BUSH.

Since David Brooks is wrong about everything always does that mean that Jindal is teh awesome?

Norbert

Brooks’ perceived waffling and flailing about are merely the symptoms of the cognitive dissonance and turmoil he is experiencing — due to his belated and subconscious realization that the party of Palin and Jindal and Bunning and whatever remaining fuckwits is not the party of Burke. Or he had a prostate exam yesterday. Also.

hobgoblin of little minds

Clearly, Brooks is just pissed that bobby didn’t show enough epistemological modesty in the rebuttal speech. And, he didn’t mention Truck Nutz. Also.

Watching Jindal’s lollipop head bobbing around drove me nuts, especially that stupid applause line “American can do anything.” Holy shit. If this is the best the GOP can do, it’s going to be a long time in the wilderness. They get half credit for finding a brown guy to do the dirty work but Palin is starting to look good compared to this clown.

Oh Bobby, on the volcano thing, volcanoes sometimes erupt and KILL PEOPLE. Recall Mt. St Helens, if you will, and the super-volcano simmering under Yellowstone that would wipe out half the country if it went off.

Stupid tool.

irativ

Brooks is hilarious about 10% of the time when he remembers to screw his head in to his neck.

I kept wishing an old fashioned Louisiana governer could have given the speech: a massively overweight guy in a Panama suit, loose wide tie, big sweat stains under his arms, holding a fly swatter and a stogie in one hand and a glass of Jack in the other, and wrapping up with, laissez le bon temps rollez! I be raght wit’ ya, honey.” It would have been way better than Piyush.

Donny: Are these the Nazis, Walter?
Walter Sobchak: No, Donny, these men are nihilists, there’s nothing to be afraid of.

Cicada

Poor Piyush! Even the conservative intellectuals have turned against him, the “scary smart” future of the party.
I hope this doesn’t mean that the Palin/Jindal dream ticket is off the table. 2012 will be soooooo boring if we end up with Mittens or Pawlenty.

AngryBlakGuy

…the GOP debates are going to be AWESOME in 2012!

Guppy06

[re=252160]WadISay[/re]: Last I heard, Edwards was still a guest of the Feds in Texas.

bitchincamaro

@ 0:34, Shields is like, “Damn, this dude stole MY notes!”

http://joshreads.com Josh Fruhlinger

I have to say that I am always charmed by the Lehrer show’s circa 1987 sets. That, along with Brooks’ inability to look at the camera or stop fidgeting (qualities that one usually expects from TV news talking heads) gives the whole affair a charming public access vibe.

Tommy Says Soooo

David Vitter crapped himself it was so bad.

Sussemilch

[re=252170]Cicada[/re]: It doesn’t really matter who they roll out there. If they couldn’t get a moderate-appealing war hero to beat a black guy named Hussein, then they lost on the party, not the candidate. They need some serious re-branding.

Zadig

[re=252169]d4g33z[/re]: Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.

brown_recluse

Something I don’t understand: Jindal and his Sherriff friend wanted to go a-rescuin’ in boats when Katrina struck, but first they had to go aginst the big bad guvmint. Does Jindal not think that he and Sheriff Friend are not part of the Government?

President Beeblebrox

My word! A Mussulman President and a Hindoo Governor. What will this world come to when the Raj no longer controls this nation? Piyush, please fetch Madam and me another scone and some clotted cream, there’s a good lad.

Mr Blifil

So evolution is a hoax, but volcanoes exist? I mean OK he doesn’t want to fund volcano monitoring, but the dude admitted that volcanoes EXIST!!! This is a triumph for Obama’s attempts to reclaim SCIENCE.

cafeconleche

[re=252183]Zadig[/re]: *snort* my thoughts exactly

Capitol Hillbilly

Tommy Says Soooo: good thing he was wearing diapers!

Clancy_Pants

He had me at “uhh not so well”

IceCreamEmpress

Let’s talk about this spammer guy:

He seems not to understand what “sugar daddy” and “sugar baby” mean, since he’s implying that they’re reciprocal.

gurukalehuru

[re=252148]anno[/re]: I don’t know who you are or why you’re here, but I like the way you talk.

Mr Blifil

[re=252184]brown_recluse[/re]: To say nothing of the fact that Piyush was in Baton Rouge on the dates when the revenyooers were impounding the rescue boats.

Also, the boats were going to have to go down what had been streets earlier in the week, with the water full of asbestos, glass, alligators, and downed power lines. If the Sheriff was so gung-ho about rescue, why wasn’t his ass on a shrimp boat, toute suite? Also.

bitchincamaro

[re=252194]IceCreamEmpress[/re]: spammer guy is a fucktard.

Scarab

Obviously Jindal is one of Obama’s sleeper cell muslins whose mission is to bring down the Republican Party. It’s all falling into place, people.

rocktonsammy

Heckeva job, Piyushie

HollyP

[re=252133]GooseInANoose[/re]: Lord can you aethiests not remember that exorcism is a Catholic Rite? Catholics like Bobby don’t do voodoo. Get your religious quack sects straight, man.

President Beeblebrox

[re=252205]HollyP[/re]: Hey, wait, Piyush DID wish us a Happy Mardi Gras at the beginning of his address. Nothing says “economic recovery” like taking your top off for beads and publicly vomiting on Bourbon Street.

sati demise

[re=252179]Tommy Says Soooo[/re]: win!

proudcitizen

“Even the conservative intellectuals have turned against him, the “scary smart” future of the party.” Isn’t “conservative intelectuals” and oxymoron?

Dr Tobias Funke

Is it true that Piyush Jindal’s middle name is Jihadist?

Also, where can I see a copy of his birth cert? mmmkthanxbye

Texan Bulldoggette

[re=252207]President Beeblebrox[/re]: Don’t forget getting shot at! Because it ain’t a party until someone starts shooting at you.

actor212

Bobby Jindal, Slumdog Governor.

What a joke.

Jonny Lieberman

[re=252169]d4g33z[/re]: Say what you want about the tenants of National Socialism, but at least it was an ethos.

Bowdoin

The body language is important. You see Mr Brooks always before, and he’s like a Darvon ad; flat affect, which is after all the definition of cool. Now he’s rocking in his seat and throwing tomahawks. Disaster, he says of the Palin wing of the party. Insane, he says of the Louisiana response.

So now if they expel him from the party of the neanderthals it would be win-win, as he’s about the last sane voice there is. For intellectual heft, they would be left with the dementia of George Will.

In Newsweek just this week, in a column on Marbury vs Madison, there was a warning parenthesis to the Republicans. The Federalists were in power, then they lost it in 1802, and they became strictly obstructionist, like the dinosaur. It’s why you don’t see them around no more.

acilius

Apparently the people who brought you Tina Fey lookalike Sarah Palin decided to stick with the 30 ROCK theme. Good job, Kenneth the Page!

TestRat1

I will never visit Bolly Rouge again.

shortsshortsshorts

DAVID BROOKS IS A FAKE CONSERVATIVE CREATED IN 1988 TO DISTRACT US FROM REAL ISSUES LIKE BRINGING BACK CRYSTAL PEPSI AND SUCH. FOCUS ON AMERICA. CAST OFF THIS BROOKS FELLOW.

BOBBY JINDAL IS A GENIUS FOREVER AND EVER *fart*.

cal

[re=252204]rocktonsammy[/re]: +1

finland

[re=252186]President Beeblebrox[/re]: i believe you’ve mistyped your name. i think you were trying to enter in “Madam Nooninghamptonshire” but accidentally got “President Beeblebrox.” careful with that!

madtowngooner

A geriatric nurse friend of mine told me once that when old ladies rock back and forth like Brooksie was doing in this video they are in fact masturbating. David Brooks is a masturbating old lady! And WTF, the American people didn’t like the stimulus bill the D’s passed? Hell, we’re rockin’ in our cum drenched chairs over it.

Terry

[re=252123]Serolf Divad[/re]:

and a white persian cat to pet.

Red Zeppelin

I think Bobby Jindal is a very promising politician, but I must say, in all honesty, that he looked like a shaved monkey out there.

randomsausage

Most hilarious was his “Mardi Gras” quip at the beginning. It was like having your dad walk into your bedroom when you were a teenager, listening to the music on ye olde stereo player, and telling your assembled friends…”hey kids, this one’s got a good beat”.

SayItWithWookies

[re=252139]rina[/re]: Brooks is actually amenable to reason part of the time. On All Things Considered he sometimes completely agrees with E.J. Dionne. If he were a real Republican he’d have that fixed (a simple procedure, I’m told) but he’s an interesting representation of how the base is calving off the moderates at an increasingly rapid pace. Political climate change in a way — which the Republicans also don’t believe in.

sarahconnor

Brooks needs to get his meds checked. He is on an epistemological roller coaster. He must get off before he wets his pants… or I wet mine.

TeddyS

Well, Booby Jindal crashed and burned before he ever got off the ground. Damn. Incredible as it seems, Sarah is looking stronger by the day as the GOP 2012 candidate.

snideinplainsight

He’s the man who put the “goober” in “goobernatorial” –

In-a-gadda-velveeta

Clearly my allergies were acting up and making my vision blurry when I read on the video above: Brooke Shields on the GOP Response.

That said, I wonder what her take on things would be.

SkimLatteModerate

[re=252281]randomsausage[/re]: I’m sad to say I immediately switched the channel upon hearing those words. Apparenty I missed an entire speech full of awkwardness.

Peanut Inspector

Volcano monitoring forces an unholy wedge between faith and science. When Vulcan is angry, he must be appeased, and we must not seek to guess his will.

snideinplainsight

Bobby Jindal is HAWT!!

sanantonerose

God help me, but I love his pink ties.

snideinplainsight

I’m sorry, I meant Stormy Daniels. Stormy Daniels is HAWT!!! That’s what I meant to say.

Yeah, Bobby Jindal is a weinerschnitzel bobblehead. Yeah, Stormy, she’s the one I was thinking of.

I’m glad we got that cleared up.

randomsausage

What’s most disconcerting about Jindal is his accent. I want him to talk like Apu and here he is channeling Cletus from the Dukes of Hazzard.

Can’t you just hear the Rs going on? I’m sure they were saying stuff like “So we got some kinda darky or woman or some shit we can put up there for a response after the gawd damn speeh by the magic negro? Whut? We got a Indian? You mean like a Geronimo Indian? Like a India Indian? Well, put him on there then.”

teebob2000

[re=252306]Peanut Inspector[/re]: SUCH a win.

wildeoats

Jindal should be the latest installment in the course teaching the Repubs to be suspicious of the idea that the savior of the Republican party can come from some little out of the way shithole state, like Louisiana, or Alaska, or Arkansas.

Chi-town_Vinny

I like Krugman’s analysis of the speech – “The intellectual incoherence is stunning. Basically, the political philosophy of the GOP right now seems to consist of snickering at stuff that they think sounds funny. The party of ideas has become the party of Beavis and Butthead.”

Governor Bobby Piyush would make a great Prexy because Louisiana is all fixed now, no thanks to that dagnabbed Congress. (He said so in the speech, so it must be true.)

TGY

Weirdly, his tie seems to match his lips.

snideinplainsight

This whole rhetorical device of repubs pulling one tiny little line item out of the budget and ranting about it is astonishingly stupid. Weirdly, a lot of Americans now are math literate enough to realize that compared to a trillion or a hundred billion, a million or even a hundred million is tiny.

And beyond that, they’ve just been entirely tone-deaf about their choice of examples. People get that volcanoes are bad news. Looking up at a huge eruption of molten lava and exploding stone on the horizon, we well imagine most people thinking (not idly) “Shouldn’t someone have been keeping tabs on that?” Pompei, anyone?

A helicopter for the President? Wouldn’t that have been exactly the same thing any right-wing president would have ridden around in, had they won?

Neilist

And now, Verse the Fourth in my continuing homage to Rudyard Kipling:

GUNGA JINDAL

The speech young Bobby made, just was not up to grade.
The country does not bond with Hindu dweebs.
He looked nervous as a goose, or a Thugee with a noose,
As he channeled Herbert Hoover from the grave.

As an initial bid for office, it was bloody blinkin’ ‘awful,
As Dave Brooks said of the sepoy’s first parade.
“If THAT’s the best that we can do, then the GOP is THROUGH!”
And he wept a bitter tear of doubt and shame.

Jindal! Jindal! Jindal! What the HELL you doing now?,
Cried the partisians of Palin in their pain.
Even Dave Brooks says you’re screwed! What’s the Party now to do?
We’ve run out of tokens to advance our aims!

Take up the Limbaugh’s burden–
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of Muslins
And check the show of pride;
By halting speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain
To seek another’s profit,
And work another’s gain.